Luca Signorelli

Last Judgment — Orvieto Cathedral

The painter of the heroic nude. His Last Judgment frescoes in Orvieto Cathedral — writhing bodies of the damned, muscular angels, apocalyptic drama — directly influenced Michelangelo's Sistine Last Judgment. Vasari said Michelangelo studied Signorelli's nudes.

Key works

• Last Judgment frescoes (Orvieto)1499-1504— The damned — muscular apocalypse before Michelangelo
  Chapel of San Brizio, Orvieto Cathedral

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